Modeling Thermodynamic Distance, Curvature and Fluctuations: A Geometric Approach (Understanding Complex Systems) - Hardcover

Badescu, Viorel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3319337882 ISBN 13: 9783319337883

Publisher: Springer, 2016

Synopsis

This textbook aims to briefly outline the main directions in which the

geometrization of thermodynamics has been developed in the last decades.

The textbook is accessible to people trained in thermal sciences but not

necessarily with solid formation in mathematics. For this, in the first chapters

a summary of the main mathematical concepts is made. In some sense,

this makes the textbook self-consistent. The rest of the textbook consists of

a collection of results previously obtained in this young branch of thermodynamics.

The manner of presentation used throughout the textbook is

adapted for ease of access of readers with education in natural and technical

sciences.

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This textbook aims to briefly outline the main directions in which the

geometrization of thermodynamics has been developed in the last decades.

The textbook is accessible to people trained in thermal sciences but not

necessarily with solid formation in mathematics. For this, in the first chapters

a summary of the main mathematical concepts is made. In some sense,

this makes the textbook self-consistent. The rest of the textbook consists of

a collection of results previously obtained in this young branch of thermodynamics.

The manner of presentation used throughout the textbook is

adapted for ease of access of readers with education in natural and technical

sciences.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319337882
• ISBN 13: 9783319337883
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212